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BC Hydro asks customers to check bills after online security breach

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dissent

Michael Mui reports: BC Hydro is asking its online credit-card customers to check their bills after a security breach was detected last week. Corporation spokeswoman Jennifer Young said the breach — which involved credit card information not being properly encrypted — has been corrected, but urges those who paid online with a credit card in…

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Dutch employment agency applicant data allegedly leaked following extortion attempt

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dissent

@quentynblog kindly pointed me to what appears to be yet another extortion attempt that resulted in a data leak when the breached entity wouldn’t pay: From the hackers’ post: Dear friends (and enemies), Last week, we hacked into the Web server of Accord.nl, a Dutch temporary employment company, downloading thousands of job applicant records. We…

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Islamic hackers post hundreds of Israeli email addresses and passwords

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dissent

Oded Yaron reports: Islamic hackers on Sunday revealed hundreds of Israeli email addresses and their passwords on the website of Anonymous Arab. According to Avnet Security Systems, most of the addresses and passwords listed are active accounts. Roni Bachar, the manager of the cyber-attack department at Avnet, said in a statement, “There was apparently penetration…

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Ca: District of Squamish breach admitted

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dissent

Rebecca Aldous reports: District of Squamish officials last year accidentally posted bylaw infraction information on the district’s website that should have remained private. The privacy breach happened for approximately a month in January 2011. At the time, the public was able to access mostly unidentifiable bylaw complaint attachments, said Robin Arthurs, the municipality’s general manager…

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AU: Telstra breached customers’ privacy

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dissent

Jacqueline Le reports: The communications watchdog has slammed Telstra for publishing the personal details of more than 700,000 customers online for most of last year. As many as 734,000 Telstra customers had their names, addresses and, in some cases, driver’s licence details and dates of birth, published online between March and December 2011. The user…

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UK: Privacy glitch forces porn filtering consultation offline

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dissent

Stewart Mitchell reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office is looking into complaints over a privacy breach on the consultation on web porn blocking launched yesterday on the Department of Education’s website. The department’s entire consultation page is currently down, cutting into the ten-week window for posting opinions on whether adult sites should be filtered by default….

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